Your Mac Pro includes four drive bays, allowing you to configure it with up to 16TB of storage using 7200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s drives, up to 2TB of storage using high-performance solid-state drives (SSD), or any combination of each type of drive. Configure each drive bay separately.

Upgrading your boot drive from a hard drive to a solid-state drive will generate up to 3x faster boot time, 5x faster import/open/saving of large files, and 5x faster application start-up.

All hard drives and solid-state drives are new.

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1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
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2TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
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4TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
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250GB Solid-State Drive
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500GB Solid-State Drive
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1TB Solid-State Drive
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Hard Drive / SSD - Bay 1

Note regarding solid-state drives:
The drive bays on the Mac Pro are SATA2 (3GB/s), which allow a maximum performance of 250MB/s for solid-state drives. However, we stock the new SATA3 (6GB/s) solid-state drives which are capable of 500MB/s. To achieve the full potential of our Samsung SATA3 solid-state drives, we can install them on a PCIe slot which allow the drives to perform at their full speed. We recommend the PCIe SSDs (configuration options below) for the boot drive.

Professionals typically have a PCIe SSD as the boot drive (for the operating system and applications) plus one or two more SSDs/HDs (for data storage).

We can setup RAID arrays with two or four identical drives.

A stripe RAID combines the speed of two drives for performance. For example, 2x 4TB drives perform at 150MB/s alone, but 250MB/s on stripe RAID. The RAID will display as a single 8TB drive. (Known as RAID 0)

A mirror RAID automatically copies everything from one drive to the other for backup. For example, if you have 2x 4TB drives and one dies, the data will be retrievable on the 2nd drive. This RAID will display as 4TB drive since the second drive is being occupied as a mirror copy of the first. (Known as RAID 1)

Hard Drive / SSD - Bay 2

This Mac Pro includes four drive bays, allowing you to configure it with up to 8 terabytes of storage using 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s drives, up to 2 terabytes of storage using high-performance solid-state drives, or any combination of each type of drive. Configure each drive bay separately.

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1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
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2TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
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4TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
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250GB Solid-State Drive
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500GB Solid-State Drive
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1TB Solid-State Drive
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Hard Drive / SSD - Bay 3

This Mac Pro includes four drive bays, allowing you to configure it with up to 8 terabytes of storage using 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s drives, up to 2 terabytes of storage using high-performance solid-state drives, or any combination of each type of drive. Configure each drive bay separately.

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1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
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2TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
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4TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
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Hard Drive / SSD - Bay 4

This Mac Pro includes four drive bays, allowing you to configure it with up to 8 terabytes of storage using 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s drives, up to 2 terabytes of storage using high-performance solid-state drives, or any combination of each type of drive. Configure each drive bay separately.

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1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
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2TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
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4TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
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PCIe SSD / Flash Storage (Boot Drive)

Apple produced the Mac Pro with a SATA II (3GB/s) onboard drive bay controller. New SSDs are SATA III (6GB/s). Upgrading your SSD(s) from the onboard SATA II controller to a PCI-Express based SATA III controller will allow the SSD to perform at full speed; achieving up to double the speed.

The new 'cylinder' Mac Pros use the newest technology flash storage drives. Via a proprietary and revolutionary system, we install the super fast flash storage drives in the tower Mac Pro. These drives achieve 900MB/s as a single drive and 1000-2000MB/s in striped-RAID configuration.

Since these drives will be installed on a PCI-Express slot, the 4 drive bays will be free. Thus, allowing the SSD/flash boot drive plus 4x hard drives. Additional hard drives and SSDs can be installed in the optical bay upon request.

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250GB PCIe Solid-State Drive (~500MB/s)
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500GB PCIe Solid-State Drive (~500MB/s)
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1TB PCIe Solid-State Drive (~500MB/s)
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2TB PCIe Solid-State Drive (~500MB/s)
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256GB PCIe Flash Storage (~1250MB/s)
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512GB PCIe Flash Storage (~1250MB/s)
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Graphics

Configure your Mac Pro with PCI Express graphics cards. Configure your Mac Pro with two cards to power up to six displays simultaneously for visualization projects and large display walls or choose one high-performance card for video editing and rendering.

eSATA 2-Port PCIe Expansion Card (6GB/s max transfer rate)

This eSATA PCIe card has a total transfer rate of 6GB/s (600MB/s). Thus, if you connect 1x eSATA device, the device will perform at the full speed of 6GB/s. If you connect 2x eSATA devices, each device will perform at 3GB/s. If you would like a card with each port having a dedicated controller (having more than 1 device perform at full speed [6GB/s]), please contact us for other options. This card does support multi-drive enclosures.

USB 3.0 4-Port PCIe Expansion Card (5GB/s max transfer rate)

The maximum speed of USB 3.0 is 5GB/s. This card has four USB 3.0 ports on one controller. If one device is used, it will perform at the full 5GB/s. If two devices are used at once, it will divide the speed between the two devices - each transferring at up to 2.5GB/s. If four devices are being utilized at once, each port will max at 1.25GB/s.